Dim Sum is Fark for eyegasm. someone should write down recipes, put them in a book or something. when i was a little girl recipes didn't include such nonsense as "use two 10 1/2oz cans of pumpkin pie filling". you picked a pumpkin out back and cooked it down first.

KrispyKritter:Dim Sum is Fark for eyegasm. someone should write down recipes, put them in a book or something. when i was a little girl recipes didn't include such nonsense as "use two 10 1/2oz cans of pumpkin pie filling". you picked a pumpkin out back and cooked it down first.

CSB: last year was the first time I had "blood tofu", and it was at a Dim Sum place here in OC. I didn't know what it was so I just dove in and ate about 1/2 the bowl before someone told me it was basically coagulated blood. I had no idea; it had a tofu-like texture and a delicious taste.

mercator_psi:ZzeusS: Lots of good stuff there. But you can hold the chicken feet.

Practically everything served at Dim Sum is better than chicken feet.

CSB: last year was the first time I had "blood tofu", and it was at a Dim Sum place here in OC. I didn't know what it was so I just dove in and ate about 1/2 the bowl before someone told me it was basically coagulated blood. I had no idea; it had a tofu-like texture and a delicious taste.

Even bad Dim Sum is better than most other food.

Blood tofu is farking fantastic. A lot of Sichuan dishes have it in them, they also have some kind of blood noodles in hot oil that are delicious. I don't know what half the dishes are (because I can only read a few characters) so I just order by sight.

Not many Cantonese restaurants up here in the north, though, so not much dim sum.

Krymson Tyde:KrispyKritter: Dim Sum is Fark for eyegasm. someone should write down recipes, put them in a book or something. when i was a little girl recipes didn't include such nonsense as "use two 10 1/2oz cans of pumpkin pie filling". you picked a pumpkin out back and cooked it down first.

KrispyKritter:Dim Sum is Fark for eyegasm. someone should write down recipes, put them in a book or something. when i was a little girl recipes didn't include such nonsense as "use two 10 1/2oz cans of pumpkin pie filling". you picked a pumpkin out back and cooked it down first.

/ we had AM radio// and we LIKED it

I hate when I'm searching for a recipe, say for lemon poppy seed cupcakes, and the first recipe is something like:

Recently discovered a great dim sum place here and I've gone twice in the past month. It's always crowded. They are happy to explain what each dish is and what's in it. Tons of good food at a great price.

Tried a chicken foot at the urging of my Chinese/Taiwanese co-workers. It was in too tough to bite through the skin. I could feel the little foot bones and claws. Was gross. Got partial credit for the attempt.

Linguistics is incredibly interesting to me, but also so dense that I can't get involved more than tangentially.

Next question: chicken feet has bone. Do you eat the bone?

No. It's boiled and 'cured' with some spices and herbs, which gives it its distinctive coloring. This process loosens the 'skin' and cartilage, or whatever is in chicken feet, and that's what's eaten. The bones you spit out, which makes it kinda messy to eat.

Did you listen to The Shadow?Did you get your fresh vegetables from a horse-drawn cart?Was your milk delivered to your front door - and have a little cream erection on freezing days?Did you get mail deliveries twice a day?Did your margarine come in a package that had a color pellet to squeeze and spread around to change the color to yellow?Did you have to get out of the chair to change the TV channel?Could you grab onto the backs of cars and slide during snowy days because snow plows didn't exist?

GungFu:casual disregard: How the heck do we get "dian xin" out of "dim sum"? Did some ancient Englishman decide to fark up every Chinese translation on purpose?

FTFY. Cantonese is an older language than Mandarin. Dim Sum is Cantonese.

Forget the age of the languages...most dim sum restauranteurs are Cantonese. I once lived near a restaurant that served Mandarin/Northern style small plates, but it functioned very much like a tapas restaurant and was much more upscale. My fave Cantonese dim sum restaurant used menus instead of carts, but they also used garbage bags as table cloths and would regularly seat multiple parties at a table during the chaos of a weekend service...

Chicken feet are not as gross as they may sound. The meat is very much like leg meat - to me, anyway.

When I was in college I had a chinese american friend take me to dim sum. Not recognizing what they were, I ordered the chicken feet even though he asked me if I was sure. I ate most of them even though I realized what they were after I ordered them. They were OK but it's just skin and sinew, no meat. I even took some home as left overs but was revolted by the sight of them in full daylight, ended up throwing them away.

/when a chinese friend asks you if you are sure about ordering something at dim sum don't be stupid, don't order it.//I was also too stupid to realize he was "taking me out", he came out as gay a few years later.